..Furthermore, biological testing of the marimastat complex established that these carriers are stable in non-reducing biological environments and would serve to deliver MMP inhibitors to tumour sites intact...

Cellular uptake and distribution of cobalt complexes of fluorescent ligands

Structural investigations of palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes of salicylhydroxamic acid

Matthew D HallCentre for Heavy Metals Research, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, AustraliaInorg Chem 41:1223-8. 2002

..It was found that the [N,O'] mode gave the more stable complex, in accord with experimental observations. Stabilization of hydroxamate binding to platinum is evidently afforded by soft ligands lying trans to them...